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Preparing to sell an iMac.
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(Last edited by milo; Dec 22, 2007 at 11:33 PM.
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core duo 2 seems to be the next update for the macbook...so go fool around with a macbook and imac...if something works dramatically faster with the imac...hold of for the cd2 macbook...but i could be wrong and they could just give the macbook a speed bump with just the reg core duo.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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When I sell off a Mac I make sure to use disk utility and write ZERO's to the drive. You want to wipe all your personal information off of there. Using 7-pass should be enough to get everything off of there, then do a fresh install of whichever OS came with the system and make sure you install everything, ie the default install should pretty much check mark everything so leave it at that.
Once the OS is installed it will take you to the welcome video after rebooting, once the video stops and the first screen appears that wants you to register hit APPLE + Q to quit. The next time the system is turned on it will repeat the opening video and ask for registration all over again, and this time it will be for the new owner...just like if they had bought it brand new!
Cheers and good luck on the sale.
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Good solid advice from ChasingApple.
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(Last edited by milo; Dec 22, 2007 at 11:32 PM.
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For an appropriate price, do a search on eBay and see what a model with similar options typically goes for. In my experience, items that sell on the MacNN forums typically would go below what normal eBay prices go for, but then again, you wouldn't have to pay eBay fees and go through the hassle of listing an auction.
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You want to erase the free space after you have doen a clean install.
$850 would be a low number for your iMac, $1,300 would be a high number. Alot appear to be going for $1,100 to $1,250. I really like eBay completed listings for determining the value of something.
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Originally Posted by ChasingApple 
Once the OS is installed it will take you to the welcome video after rebooting, once the video stops and the first screen appears that wants you to register hit APPLE + Q to quit. The next time the system is turned on it will repeat the opening video and ask for registration all over again, and this time it will be for the new owner...just like if they had bought it brand new!
IIRC You have to create the owner's account before you can get to the registration screen. What I've done before is just force a shutdown right after the intro video. At the next startup, it automatically does the video again.
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Hi,
A question about ownership:
I am about to sell my Mac too, and did the reinstall and such. One thing I just want to be sure of: If the new owner has never had a Mac, never registered anything with Apple, etc., will they still be okay to register this, reinstalled, OS? It's as much a legal question as a practical one. In other words, does the copy of Tiger I got with the Mac belong to the Mac (for all intents and purposes) and can travel (be sold) with it (the hardware), rather than belonging to me, the person that first registered it? I don't have to buy a new copy of Tiger to send along to the new owner, or is that what I am supposed to do?
Thanks
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Originally Posted by StewBC
Hi,
A question about ownership:
I am about to sell my Mac too, and did the reinstall and such. One thing I just want to be sure of: If the new owner has never had a Mac, never registered anything with Apple, etc., will they still be okay to register this, reinstalled, OS? It's as much a legal question as a practical one. In other words, does the copy of Tiger I got with the Mac belong to the Mac (for all intents and purposes) and can travel (be sold) with it (the hardware), rather than belonging to me, the person that first registered it? I don't have to buy a new copy of Tiger to send along to the new owner, or is that what I am supposed to do?
Thanks
If you got Tiger with that Mac, it stays with that Mac - you cannot make and keep another copy of Tiger for yourself, nor can you install it onto another Mac or use it for any other purpose.
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iMac 2.0DC 1.5GB 250GB SD 10.4.9
MBP 1.83DC 1.5GB 80GB SD 10.4.9
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